The Challenge Of Crime In A Free Society

Author : United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Crime
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060034712

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The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society by United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice Pdf

This report of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- established by President Lyndon Johnson on July 23, 1965 -- addresses the causes of crime and delinquency and recommends how to prevent crime and delinquency and improve law enforcement and the administration of criminal justice. In developing its findings and recommendations, the Commission held three national conferences, conducted five national surveys, held hundreds of meetings, and interviewed tens of thousands of individuals. Separate chapters of this report discuss crime in America, juvenile delinquency, the police, the courts, corrections, organized crime, narcotics and drug abuse, drunkenness offenses, gun control, science and technology, and research as an instrument for reform. Significant data were generated by the Commission's National Survey of Criminal Victims, the first of its kind conducted on such a scope. The survey found that not only do Americans experience far more crime than they report to the police, but they talk about crime and the reports of crime engender such fear among citizens that the basic quality of life of many Americans has eroded. The core conclusion of the Commission, however, is that a significant reduction in crime can be achieved if the Commission's recommendations (some 200) are implemented. The recommendations call for a cooperative attack on crime by the Federal Government, the States, the counties, the cities, civic organizations, religious institutions, business groups, and individual citizens. They propose basic changes in the operations of police, schools, prosecutors, employment agencies, defenders, social workers, prisons, housing authorities, and probation and parole officers.

Author : United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
Publisher : New York : Dutton, 1968 i. e. 1969.
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Crime
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041833596

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The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society by United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice Pdf

U.S. criminal justice, amount and trends of crime, juvenile delinquency, police functions, court procedures, corrections, organized crime, and the use of science and technology in various phases of police and court operations are among the topics considered.

Author : Commission on law enforcement and administration of justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:490439547

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The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society by Commission on law enforcement and administration of justice Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0380010909

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Challenge of Crime in a Free Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Palmiotto
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0834210878

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Community Policing by Michael Palmiotto Pdf

Law Enforcement, Policing, & Security

Author : U.S. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Crime and criminals
ISBN : OCLC:977162680

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The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society by U.S. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Crime
ISBN : OCLC:612454463

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The challenge of crime in a free society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Crime
ISBN : OCLC:612454463

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The challenge of crime in a free society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Ruth,Kevin R. Reitz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674266940

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The Challenge of Crime by Henry Ruth,Kevin R. Reitz Pdf

The development of crime policy in the United States for many generations has been hampered by a drastic shortage of knowledge and data, an excess of partisanship and instinctual responses, and a one-way tendency to expand the criminal justice system. Even if a three-decade pattern of prison growth came to a full stop in the early 2000s, the current decade will be by far the most punitive in U.S. history, hitting some minority communities particularly hard. The book examines the history, scope, and effects of the revolution in America's response to crime since 1970. Henry Ruth and Kevin Reitz offer a comprehensive, long-term, pragmatic approach to increase public understanding of and find improvements in the nation's response to crime. Concentrating on meaningful areas for change in policing, sentencing, guns, drugs, and juvenile crime, they discuss such topics as new priorities for the use of incarceration; aggressive policing; the war on drugs; the need to switch the gun control debate to a focus on crime gun regulation; a new focus on offenders' transition from confinement to freedom; and the role of private enterprise. A book that rejects traditional liberal and conservative outlooks, The Challenge of Crime takes a major step in offering new approaches for the nation's responses to crime.

Author : Jack R. Greene
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1575 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415970006

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The Encyclopedia of Police Science by Jack R. Greene Pdf

First published in 1996, this work covers all the major sectors of policing in the United States. Political events such as the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have created new policing needs while affecting public opinion about law enforcement. This third edition of the "Encyclopedia" examines the theoretical and practical aspects of law enforcement, discussing past and present practices.

Author : Joshua Reeves
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479894901

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Citizen Spies by Joshua Reeves Pdf

The history of recruiting citizens to spy on each other in the United States. Ever since the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we think about surveillance as the data-tracking digital technologies used by the likes of Google, the National Security Administration, and the military. But in reality, the state and allied institutions have a much longer history of using everyday citizens to spy and inform on their peers. Citizen Spies shows how “If You See Something, Say Something” is more than just a new homeland security program; it has been an essential civic responsibility throughout the history of the United States. From the town crier of Colonial America to the recruitment of youth through “junior police,” to the rise of Neighborhood Watch, AMBER Alerts, and Emergency 9-1-1, Joshua Reeves explores how ordinary citizens have been taught to carry out surveillance on their peers. Emphasizing the role humans play as “seeing” and “saying” subjects, he demonstrates how American society has continuously fostered cultures of vigilance, suspicion, meddling, snooping, and snitching. Tracing the evolution of police crowd-sourcing from “Hue and Cry” posters and America’s Most Wanted to police-affiliated social media, as well as the U.S.’s recurrent anxieties about political dissidents and ethnic minorities from the Red Scare to the War on Terror, Reeves teases outhow vigilance toward neighbors has long been aligned with American ideals of patriotic and moral duty. Taking the long view of the history of the citizen spy, this book offers a much-needed perspective for those interested in how we arrived at our current moment in surveillance culture and contextualizes contemporary trends in policing.

Author : President's Commision on Law Enforcement
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1410219984

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The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society by President's Commision on Law Enforcement Pdf

This is the report of the Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, created by President Johnson in 1965. This report is about crime in America - about those who commit it, about those who are its victims, and about what can be done to reduce it. Many Americans take comfort in the view that crime is the vice of a handful of people. This view is inaccurate. In the United States today, one boy in six is referred to the juvenile court. A Commission survey shows that in 1965 more than two million Americans were received in prisons or juvenile training schools, or placed on probation. Another Commission study suggests that about 40 percent of all male children now living in the United States will be arrested for a nontraffic offense during their lives. An independent survey of 1,700 persons found that 91 percent of the sample admitted they had committed acts for which they might have received jail or prison sentences. Many Americans also think of crime as a very narrow range of behavior. It is not. An enormous variety of acts make up the "crime problem." Crime is not just a tough teenager snatching a lady's purse. It is a professional thief stealing cars "on order." It is a well-heeled loan shark taking over a previously legitimate business for organized crime. It is a polite young man who suddenly and inexplicably murders his family. It is a corporation executive conspiring with competitors to keep prices high. No single formula, no single theory, no single generalization can explain the vast range of behavior called crime.

Author : Herman Goldstein
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Ballinger Publishing Company
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : UOM:49015000206210

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Policing a Free Society by Herman Goldstein Pdf

Author : Myles J. Kelleher
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0761829245

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Social Problems in a Free Society by Myles J. Kelleher Pdf

The future of the sociologist's profession is jeopardized by an ongoing trend toward the politicization of sociology and the radicalization of social problems. This book calls for the rethinking of the culture of social, political, and economic liberty to create a resurgence of a sociological agenda. Social Problems in a Free Society offers an original perspective on social problems such as violations of the principles of individual rights and the free market. This book is a vision for reinvigorating the discipline in a fashion undreamt of within the wearisome strains of today's radical social problems theory.

Author : Jonathon A. Cooper
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793647573

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Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing by Jonathon A. Cooper Pdf

This newly revised edition includes two new chapters exploring events in policing since 2014, and offers a compelling new direction to improve policing, today.